foo_discogs

2006-11-26 21:58:23

Features:

- tag files using discogs data. Retrieve more info than most taggers. Goes to extra length to make sure retrieve data is correct and well formatted- flexible tag mapping allows you to write only what you want where you want- use of meta data in tags to display artist / label / release discogs www page- able to later update specified tags (useful to update rating)

foo_discogs

Easy problem: Perhaps add the album release format (shown as "format" on discogs page) as a writeable tag?

Medium problem: When I tag vinyl albums, I like to put their side/track vinyl tracknumbers in a "VINYLTRACK" field, as I know other people do, and I order the "TRACKNUMBER" field like anyone else would. For example, a five-song 12" might look like

(Edit: Also, setting TOTALTRACKS would be nice. I'm just hoping it can get to the point where I can enter the release ID and get my stuff tagged how I like it without having to go into properties afterward and muck around.)

foo_discogs

Easy problem: Perhaps add the album release format (shown as "format" on discogs page) as a writeable tag?

Medium problem: When I tag vinyl albums, I like to put their side/track vinyl tracknumbers in a "VINYLTRACK" field, as I know other people do, and I order the "TRACKNUMBER" field like anyone else would. For example, a five-song 12" might look like

foo_discogs

Thank you so much for this. Could you add support for the styles, notes, and composer info? It seems like style and genre info are being combined.

Discogs genre is ignored because I thought it was too vague (Electronic, ...). Style is used instead because more precise. If people want it I can enable Discogs Genre again.As for note composer info, we'll see later when the parser will be more robust but I wish discogs would propose a decent API for this - instead of parsing generated HTML.

foo_discogs

this is a very nice idea but is it also possible if there are various artist names to have the right artist name for every song and not only a album artist or I'm I overlooking something.

and thanks btw great plugin saves me a lot of work

edit: I see this happens when the album artist is various artists, can you maybe make it possible to switch the album artist thing off for some albums because the info isn't always correct/incomplete so that the artists next to the song are taken (on discogs).

when I tag this vinyl the artist is partyraiser by all the songs while as you can see this is not really the case so a option to chose between an album artist or to have them seperately or both would be usefull.

foo_discogs

How does this do with releases with multiple discs?I use the %discnumber% tag...

And when handling many directories (which is how i handle multiple discs) it should sort the files with the full path instead of the filename (making it easier to match files without needing to use the move function over and over again).

foo_discogs

this is a very nice idea but is it also possible if there are various artist names to have the right artist name for every song and not only a album artist or I'm I overlooking something.

and thanks btw great plugin saves me a lot of work

edit: I see this happens when the album artist is various artists, can you maybe make it possible to switch the album artist thing off for some albums because the info isn't always correct/incomplete so that the artists next to the song are taken (on discogs).

when I tag this vinyl the artist is partyraiser by all the songs while as you can see this is not really the case so a option to chose between an album artist or to have them seperately or both would be usefull.

but it's just a suggestion, thanks in advance

This is a known problem and will be corrected : releases such as this that have two artists are not parsed correctly yet

foo_discogs

How does this do with releases with multiple discs?I use the %discnumber% tag...

And when handling many directories (which is how i handle multiple discs) it should sort the files with the full path instead of the filename (making it easier to match files without needing to use the move function over and over again).

good ideas here, with some work the %discnumber% tag could be autodetected

foo_discogs

this is a very nice idea but is it also possible if there are various artist names to have the right artist name for every song and not only a album artist or I'm I overlooking something.

and thanks btw great plugin saves me a lot of work

edit: I see this happens when the album artist is various artists, can you maybe make it possible to switch the album artist thing off for some albums because the info isn't always correct/incomplete so that the artists next to the song are taken (on discogs).

when I tag this vinyl the artist is partyraiser by all the songs while as you can see this is not really the case so a option to chose between an album artist or to have them seperately or both would be usefull.

but it's just a suggestion, thanks in advance

This is a known problem and will be corrected : releases such as this that have two artists are not parsed correctly yet

You should test this with all sorts of files, I'm trying to rename a .flac file (P.U.L.S.E. two discs) and its stuck halfway right now, I dunno if its gonna work out eventually...But this is a .flac image, with embedded cuesheet I think.edit:Yah, its hanging up hardcore, if you could look into that.

Also, are there any plans for it to find the number by itself, or within foobar bitte?

edit 2:What is the DISCOGS_PUBLISHER tag? Is it impossible to take that out?

foo_discogs

Failed to load DLL: foo_discogs.dllReason: This component is missing a required dependency, or was made for different version of foobar2000.

I do have libcurl.dll in the foobar2000 root (didn't get it from your link, already had it), and am running foobar v0.9.4.1. Any idea what is wrong? libcurl.dll is version 7.15.1.

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I din't tried it with 0.9.4.1 but it should be compatible...the problem is probably libcurl. Did you tried to replace your existing libcurl with the one linked in the first post to see if it works ?

Yes it does work with the libcurl.dll you reference. However, I compared your libcurl.dll to the one I am using. The one I have has a version and a date and references The cURL library, http://curl.haxx.se/.

The one you are recommended has no Properties associated with it, is half the size 94KB vs. 172KB, and is dated 1/2/2004 vs 2/26/2006 for the version I have.

Thus I think I am using a more recent version of the .dll. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to consider utilizing the more recent version of libcurl.dll in this module. I know you have plenty to do, and this appears to be a great plugin, but there must be significant differences in the two which might express itself with some other plugin (or whatever required the libcurl.dll in the first place).

You should test this with all sorts of files, I'mibe in other softwa trying to rename a .flac file (P.U.L.S.E. two discs) and its stuck halfway right now, I dunno if its gonna work out eventually...But this is a .flac image, with embedded cuesheet I think.edit:Yah, its hanging up hardcore, if you could look into that.

I've tried with some flacs of mine, no hang. What do you mean by flac image? a single flac containing all tracks ?

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Also, are there any plans for it to find the number by itself, or within foobar bitte?

Not in the immediate future as I tried a few very well done interface to what you describe in other software and it's almost always faster and less error prone done manually. Add to that the fact discogs does not facilitate search.

Thus I think I am using a more recent version of the .dll. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for you to consider utilizing the more recent version of libcurl.dll in this module. I know you have plenty to do, and this appears to be a great plugin, but there must be significant differences in the two which might express itself with some other plugin (or whatever required the libcurl.dll in the first place).